Silverscreen an Essay

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There's a moment

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There's a moment. A moment in the movie theater when the lights go off, the curtain rises, and the sloped aisle lights up like an airport runway, and you wonder: Will I be the same person I am now when I leave? Whatever unveils itself across a screen twenty feet tall isn't meant to stay up there. It sprouts in the dark; cultivated in open minds, softened by sadness. Whatever you need, you find it on the silver screen. Tiny pieces of the world you hate, change inside a theater. And that reality is unalterable.

Which makes me sad, ya know?

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